Get to know Okta
Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth.
At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.
Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.
Okta Customer Identity Cloud builds the best Customer Identity and Access Management solution on the planet. It was created for developers so they can focus on their innovative application ideas, for their own domains. It’s optimized for end users to minimize friction. We designed it with security in mind to keep applications, users, and organizations safe.
Okta customers come in all sizes and shapes with many counting among the most recognized brands around the world. By using Okta Customer Identity, customers increase security and reduce friction so they can grow revenues faster and become more efficient. If you have strong desires to see the results of your work used by name brand customers and millions of users around the world, then Okta is the place where your dreams can be turned into reality.
What's the opportunity?
You will join a distributed and diverse team of designers supported by leadership and subject matter experts, as well as design and research peers with whom you can collaborate and share feedback. You will also be part of a product team that includes Product Management and Engineering counterparts, and will have direct ownership and impact throughout the product development lifecycle. We are looking for a Product Designer to join our Product Experience team to design Reference Applications. The designer should be a team player and work closely with engineers and product managers to solve complex problems. This role requires creativity, technical acumen, and a deep understanding of UX/UI methodologies.
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Work cross-functionally with Product Managers and Engineers, prioritizing features and improvements, facilitating design discussions, and exchanging feedback.
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Build a deep understanding of your core customers and end-users.
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Develop comprehensive design solutions for reference applications that application developers will use to learn about Auth0 capabilities and bootstrap their own applications.
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Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that align with the platform's capabilities and best practices.
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Develop and maintain a design system that ensures consistency across all reference applications.
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Ensure all designs meet quality standards and align with the company's brand guidelines.
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Work with the Research team and obtain the necessary support to conduct research and communicate insights to help the team understand customer problems.
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Transform challenging workflows into simple, usable, and elegant experiences for developers.
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Share work early and often and seek constructive feedback from peers, product teams, and other stakeholders.
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Iterate solutions based on direct and indirect stakeholder feedback.
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Work with designers on other product teams to ensure consistency, improve quality, and contribute to our team processes and principles.
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Produce clear and comprehensive design documentation to support development and facilitate communication across teams.
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Keep up with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies in the identity space.
You might be a good fit for this role if you have:
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An advanced understanding of UI/UX/Visual design concepts and an exceptional eye for detail with a portfolio that showcases this understanding.
- 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably working with developer tools, visual design, and UX/UI.
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Front-end development experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to effectively collaborate and design state-of-the-art reference applications.
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Proficiency in design tools such as Figma or similar.
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Experience building enterprise products (B2B), ideally designing products for developers.
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Experience defining consistent UX patterns to improve the overall user experience, look, and feel.
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Worked on a robust and comprehensive design system, and know when to break out and create new extensible patterns.
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Understand systems thinking and are able to extrapolate and extend shared patterns and behaviors.
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Familiarity with component-based design.
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Distilled complex problems into precise, simple, and delightful solutions.
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Proficiency in user and customer research: developing a research plan, interviewing or conducting usability testing with users, analyzing feedback, and reporting research findings.
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Experience working in a remote environment.
What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!
- Amazing Benefits
- Making Social Impact
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta
Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.
Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.
Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.
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Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
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